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Topic: Soyuz T-6 Thirty years ago (Read 3259 times)

Thirty years ago this week, Soyuz T-6 was launched on 24 June 1982, with Jean-Loup Chrétien, V. Dzhanibekov and A. Ivanchenkov linking up with Salyut 7. Jean-Loup was the first Frenchman and first Western European in space.

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first joint flight betweenRussia and France, the French embassador in Paris asked us (spacepatches.nl) to design alogo that could be used for the official celebrations on June 26 at LeBourget. The logo shows the 'Starman' fom the original patch that wasused by the crew of Jean-Lou Chrétien's mission in 1982, accompaniedby colors of the Russian and French flags. A bigger star is depictedfor every single joint French-Russian manned mission of the past 30years ('ans' in French, 'let' in Russian). Two stars are yellow, toindicate that these missions were flown together with theSoviet-Union.